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2024 Gear Abstinence Thread


neepheid

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58 minutes ago, Richard R said:

I'm in. There are two basses in the market place I want, but emphatically don't need, so I'll nail my colours to the mast now.

 

And hope I don't unexpectedly come into a grand or so.. 😁

 

 

 

I'm in. And on this thread too. 😊

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1 minute ago, diskwave said:

Easy. Take a tip from the classical world. Buy a half decent instrument then practise like ur life depends on it. No need to ever buy another instrument. Practise.

 

Is that you signing up with some fighting talk? ;)

 

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3 minutes ago, diskwave said:

Easy. Take a tip from the classical world. Buy a half decent instrument then practise like ur life depends on it. No need to ever buy another instrument. Practise.

 

How would we find the time to scour the marketplace, Ebay, and Gumtree?

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1 minute ago, diskwave said:

Easy. Take a tip from the classical world. Buy a half decent instrument then practise like ur life depends on it. No need to ever buy another instrument. Practise.

 

That quite happily worked for the first few years. But there is such an interesting variety of basses, different  choices of tech, design, priorities,  thought processes. 

It's not like a clarinet or a violin where the design is fixed.

 

That's my excuse,  and I'm sticking to it!

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25 minutes ago, AndyTravis said:

Just bought some machine heads…I’m still in right? They’re to replace faulty ones.

 

Nearly bought a pedal this morning…NEARLY.

How about seeing if you can get to the end of January by not browsing pedals?

 

Those look what other shoppers looked at windows need to be banned. Scroll on by!

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7 minutes ago, Downunderwonder said:

How about seeing if you can get to the end of January by not browsing pedals?

 

Those look what other shoppers looked at windows need to be banned. Scroll on by!

Well I messaged to buy the pedal…

 

It had sold minutes earlier - should’ve jumped on it last night as I planned 😂

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24 minutes ago, AndyTravis said:

Just bought some machine heads…I’m still in right? They’re to replace faulty ones.

 

Nearly bought a pedal this morning…NEARLY.

 

Faulty how?  What machine heads are you replacing and what are you replacing them with?

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35 minutes ago, ezbass said:

I’m wondering if a bow for a DB counts? Picks don’t and it’s not a huge leap to see the correlation. Asking for a friend ;).

 

I guess they wear out ergo are consumables.  Can you get them replenished, or do you just get another one?  I have no idea - never played bowed instruments.  I've seen violin bows with hairs hanging out of them before...

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5 minutes ago, neepheid said:

 

I guess they wear out ergo are consumables.  Can you get them replenished, or do you just get another one?  I have no idea - never played bowed instruments.  I've seen violin bows with hairs hanging out of them before...

I don’t actually have one, but feel I should.

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8 minutes ago, neepheid said:

 

Faulty how?  What machine heads are you replacing and what are you replacing them with?

Bought a bitsa. They slip every full turn (on 2 strings).

 

have replaced with a second hand set off an 80’s Tokai.

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5 minutes ago, AndyTravis said:

Bought a bitsa. They slip every full turn (on 2 strings).

 

have replaced with a second hand set off an 80’s Tokai.

 

I'm gonna say that I think that falls under replacing something that's broken, and seems like a reasonable like for like replacement.  I reckon you're still in.  

 

Careful with those pedal dalliances though! :D

 

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4 minutes ago, neepheid said:

 

I'm gonna say that I think that falls under replacing something that's broken, and seems like a reasonable like for like replacement.  I reckon you're still in.  

 

Careful with those pedal dalliances though! :D

 

Need a fly rig or something akin…using hire rigs for the foreseeable 

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2 minutes ago, neepheid said:

Holy effing hell, I had a look at double bass bows and nearly fainted at the price of some of them!  I bloody hope they're not consumables!

I don’t think so, the hair is though.

 

Check out the price of DB strings.

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1 minute ago, ezbass said:

I don’t think so, the hair is though.

 

Check out the price of DB strings.

 

In that case, I think a bow is gear, the hair isn't.  That's my 2p, other opinions welcome (please do - I'm not the sole arbiter of this whole charade!)

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Just done my tax return.

If I've got this right then HMRC owes me the nice @Andyjr1515 single cut that's for sale in the marketplace 😃

 

Or more likely  the cost of the roof repairs following the high winds. ☹️

 

 

Edited by Richard R
Bass has been withdrawn. Roof it is.
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